Torrential rains kill dozens in DR Congo capital phys.org/news/2025-04-torrenti…
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Torrential rains kill dozens in DR Congo capital
Heavy downpours in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa have killed around 30 people while wreaking havoc across the central African megacity, an official told AFP on Sunday.Science X (Phys.org)
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Yowie Group share price
Yowie Group (ASX:YOW) is an asset listed on the ASX, and part of the Consumer Staples sector. Grafa’s asset page shows Yowie Group’s share price, chart, trading volume, earnings per share, dividends per share and P/E ratio.Yowie Group
LIVE: Israel kills 43 in Gaza, orders Palestinians in Deir el-Balah to flee
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LIVE: Israel kills 43 in Gaza, orders Palestinians in Deir el-Balah to flee
Israel’s military issues new displacement orders after Hamas fires a barrage of rockets at Ashdod and Ashkelon.Ted Regencia (Al Jazeera)
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SniffiVerse™ walkies Toot 
Ello frens and fans of Arwen 
We're out again, and Arwen is taking the sniffing very seriously. I've had to push her forward a few times now, as I was getting cold with just standing still for a while. It's dry, it's been dry too long now, but hey, it's nice when it's not raining during walkies. But it's only 4°C, with a real feel of about 2 degrees. So it's not that warm to stand still...
I rode the seated bike for half an hour. One massage chair was taken, so I decided to just get ready to head home. Of course, when I was getting up to leave, the person left the chair... Ugh, just my luck...
I enjoyed brekky and now I'm telling Arwen that a sniff is good, but she doesn't have to inhale everything 😂. The night isn't long enough to do all of that! 😇
I shared my plans in the gym Toot, to I guess I'll now try to write a bit for my blog. 😊 I hope you're having a good time! #TZAG
catch you later folks!
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Meta's benchmarks for its new AI models are a bit misleading | TechCrunch
Meta appears to have used an unreleased, custom version of one of its new flagship AI models, Maverick, to boost a benchmark score.Kyle Wiggers (TechCrunch)

#TrumpRegime #TrumpRecession #TrumpTariffs #StockMarket_Boom
#SurrealThursday: Asemic Tarot Reading
Considering all the upheaval and uncertainty generated by Trump Tariffs, I decided to do an Asemic Tarot Reading using random number choices and a five card spread. Using a random number generator, the first number was 55.
My only requirement for the next four numbers must have included 3 because it is April 3rd. The numbers that popped up were: 31 83 32 30
#Art #Collage #CollageArt #DigitalArt #DigitalCollage #Scanography #AsemicArt #Poetry #Dadaist #Dadaism #TarotCardArt #Tarot #AsemicTarot #AsemicTarotCard #AsemicWriting #Surreal #Surrealism #DadaistOracle #DadaistPoetry
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Surreal Thursday: Asemic Tarot Reading
Considering all the upheaval and uncertainty generated by Trump Tariffs, I decided to do an Asemic Tarot Reading using random number choices and a five card spread. Using a random number generator,…Asemic Tarot
Eldritch Friday: the rising eye
#WordCollagePoem composed using lines/phrases from poems by H. P. Lovecraft and Clark Aston Smith.
#Art #EOS #EOS90D #Photography #ClarkAshtonSmith #DigitalArt #Eldritch #EldritchFriday #HPLovecraft #Phantasmagoria #Poetry #SpeculativePoetry #WeirdFiction #WeirdPoetry #WeirdTales #WordCollagePoetry #WordCollage
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Eldritch Friday: the rising eye
Waste winds push out, a weird weaving whine As strange seething sea-lanes swept the Wanderer home, Once more, above the tumult – spinning heavens alone endured. Trembling upon a dark veranda …Implied Spaces
Lair of the Dragonbird by Robert Silverberg
#books #reading #bookstodon #scifi #sciencefiction #scifiart #sciencefictionart #retro #retrofuturism #pulpfiction #pulp #bookart #bookcovers #coverart
Lair of the Dragonbird by Robert Silverberg
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
Microsoft's Copilot Roasts Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and Satya Nadella - Slashdot
"Three Microsoft CEOs walk into a room..." Satya Nadella posted on X.com, "and are interviewed by Copilot!" As part of Microsoft's 50th anniversary celebration, Microsoft CEO Nadella joined former Microsoft CEOs Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer in a fu…entertainment.slashdot.org
The three knights of the apocalypse.
#SteveBallmer was one of the worst things that happened to the software industry.
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"He maintained that his comments in 2001 were right at the time but that times have changed."
Not thanks to him. And #Microsoft does not use #Copyleft licenses in their works, like most corporations, including #Google.
Had it not been a monopoly, Microsoft would have disappeared.
UConn's Geno Auriemma gives no indication of slowing down after winning 12th NCAA title
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Robert Bloch (1917-1994) was born on this day. Bibliography: isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?152
L, uncredited, 1962; R, John Holms, 1971
#scifi #sciencefiction #horror #books
Science Fiction in Dialogue with The Great Depression: Frank K. Kelly’s “Famine on Mars” (1934) sciencefictionruminations.com/…
John Jakes (1932-2023) was born on this day. Bibliography: isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1170
L, Don Ivan Punchatz, 1973; R, Jeff Jones, 1969
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
Stefan Wul (1922-2003) was born on this day. Bibliography: isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?574
L, René Brantonne, 1957; R, Lima de Freitas, 1959
#scifi #sciencefiction #books
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Sánchez recela de la receta Macron contra la guerra comercial y opta por la vía defensiva a la espera de la UE
El Gobierno confía en que la Comisión Europea anuncie la respuesta a Trump esta misma semana mientras detecta buena disposición en la oposición y los agentes sociales al plan de protección a las empresas.Esther Palomera (ElDiario.es)
the crazy thing is that more than zero people actually *believe* this life-time egotistic criminal traitor actually *cares* about any of this. he's there to grift and punish. end of story. it's not hard.
El doble rasero de Europa ante Ucrania y Palestina
Las diferencias de acción ante Ucrania y Palestina desactivan el argumento que apela a los valores europeos, con los que ahora Bruselas pretende justificar un rearme excepcional mientras sigue ignorando las masacres en GazaOlga Rodríguez (ElDiario.es)
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